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Early in the summer of [1895], I decided it was time to enlarge our building. Both the school and our practice demanded it. So an addition forty-four by sixty-four and three stories in height was planned. The work was progressing favorably, the walls were up and in process of settling, when in looking over the work I suddenly came to the conclusion that the building was still inadequate to our needs. So without consulting anyone, I decided to put another addition, forty feet by sixty-four feet to the south end of the original structure and to that end ordered my foreman to put a large force of men to work the next day to excavate for the foundation. ¶ Great was the consternation of the treating staff, members of the faculty and other employees on attempting to enter the Infirmary the next morning to find the way blocked by twenty men with teams and scrapers. The pavement of bricks which had covered the space south from the building to the street, had been removed, and the scrapers were excavating for the foundation of a new building. There were hurried consultations and I was called to one side and asked why they were not consulted, that it made their hearts bleed to see me going on so blindly and running into such unnecessary expense. They thought I was crazy and remonstrated with me on incurring such useless expense. ¶ To all these remonstrances I replied that I was paying the bills and did not need either their advice or their money. The clamor became so great that in self-defense I wrote out the following ironical statement for the perusal of my critics: ******

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Early in the summer of [1895], I decided it was time to enlarge our building. Both the school and our practice demanded it. So an addition forty-four by sixty-four and three stories in height was planned. The work was progressing favorably, the walls were up and in process of settling, when in looking over the work I suddenly came to the conclusion that the building was still inadequate to our needs. So without consulting anyone, I decided to put another addition, forty feet by sixty-four feet to the south end of the original structure and to that end ordered my foreman to put a large force of men to work the next day to excavate for the foundation. ¶ Great was the consternation of the treating staff, members of the faculty and other employees on attempting to enter the Infirmary the next morning to find the way blocked by twenty men with teams and scrapers. The pavement of bricks which had covered the space south from the building to the street, had been removed, and the scrapers were excavating for the foundation of a new building. There were hurried consultations and I was called to one side and asked why they were not consulted, that it made their hearts bleed to see me going on so blindly and running into such unnecessary expense. They thought I was crazy and remonstrated with me on incurring such useless expense. ¶ To all these remonstrances I replied that I was paying the bills and did not need either their advice or their money. The clamor became so great that in self-defense I wrote out the following ironical statement for the perusal of my critics: ******